 | John Adolphus - 1839 - 412 trang
...mill, that he may draw the grist. Of Bannister's great predecessor, Garrick, Goldsmith has said, — " On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting ;" but Bannister, whether on or off the stage, was always the same. In the drama he was affecting,... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 trang
...passages of the Memoir. " Of Bannister's great predecessor, Garrick, it was said, — ' On the stage lie was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting ;* but Bannister, whether on or off the stage, was always the same. In the drama he was affecting,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 trang
...art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours bespread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; '...acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a-day : Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 trang
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas...acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1924 - 854 trang
...instances where phonetic changes might work to the advantage of a poet who has used a false rhyme, eg : — On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he wa; ecting. I trust I have made my meaning clear. Of course, in the definitive edition of my works,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 trang
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was nil', he was acting With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turned and he varied full ten... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 trang
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster d with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas...acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a-day: Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 trang
...beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; *T was only that when he was off, he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a-day : Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick , If... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1842 - 650 trang
...apply to him the sketch of Garrick himself — " On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twae only that when he was off, he -was acting; With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day." " He carried with him," says the delightful Charles Lamb,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 trang
...Macklin, and ultimately Garrick, held their superiority by their pathos and sentiment. Goldmith says of Garrick : " On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; Twas only that when he was off he was acting." In an anonymous work published in 1750, entitled " A Treatise on Acting," the whole subject is entered... | |
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the... 
